Ok. So I’ve done a whole little Christmas past, present and future sequence. The past and present ones were pretty straightforward. I mean, they’re known quantities. Bit of descriptive text and chuck in a vaguely amusing anecdote – sorted. Future Christmas though, well that’s altogether more tricky. Who knows what the Christmas of the future…

There’s always a small amusing incident at some point during a family Christmas. Sometimes, of course, the amusement factor comes a little later, once the pain / embarrassment / unbearable shame has subsided. This year, happily, the amusement was pretty immediate (probably due to the safe distance between the perpetrator of the amusing incident and…

Well, Christmas is over for another year. Christmas 2019 was a particularly good vintage, as it goes, and involved much hilarity. In the course of enjoying the hilarity, I rehearsed (several times) the family story of the ‘rescued Christmas tree’. Also in the course of enjoying the hilarity, however, the family story of the ‘rescued…